February 2011 | C++ Team Blog

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 9 (Feb 26, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 26, 2011Feb 26, 201102/26/11

Read in this issue:

Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL
Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications
The Cost of Free
Can Touch This: Windows 7 Touch Application Development Guidance
Expressive C++: Fun With Function Composition
Simplifying SAFEARRAY programming with CComSafeArray
Finding If a Computer Is a Laptop
String API and internationalization

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C++ Renaissance: First Symptoms of Contagion in Traditionally Non-Native Teams

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 24, 2011Feb 24, 201102/24/11

You may already know Pete Brown but if you don’t, I’ll briefly introduce him here: he’s, like me, a Community Program Manager with Microsoft but while I’m focused on C/C++ languages and the Visual C++ tool, he’s devoted to client-side development technologies (mainly WPF and Silverlight,

Can Touch This: Developer Guidance for Touch-Enabled Applications

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 21, 2011Feb 21, 201102/21/11

Those who, beside this blog, read Windows Developer resources, may have noticed that at the beginning of this month that sibling team released a “Windows 7 Touch Application Development Guidance”. This guidance is purposed to make you learn about:

Design Principles.

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 8 (Feb 19, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 19, 2011Feb 19, 201102/19/11

Read in this issue:

Win32++: A Simple Alternative to MFC
How do you build a community of users that give high quality comments on a website?
What’s so cool about Boost.MPI?
W00t W00t Nix Nix!
Concurrency Runtime (CRT): The Resource Manager
CPU Caches and Why You Care
shared_ptr –

MFC Application Instance Control

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 18, 2011Feb 18, 201102/18/11

An interesting question, asked days ago in one of our C++ forums, was the following:

How to Run only one instance of MFC application??

A possible approach, based in mutex (mutual exclusion) objects, was posted a few hours later. In the proposed schema you declare a mutex object inside the MFC application class (i.e.

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 7 (Feb 12, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 12, 2011Feb 12, 201102/12/11

Read in this issue:

Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library?
Herb Sutter: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex
Entrepreneurial debates: Acquisition interest in my part-time startup
Introduction to Expressive C++
Two MS Executives Talk about the C++ Renaissance
Go Ask printf() To Behave Predictably

shared_ptr – Advanced STL, Part 1

Visual CPP TeamFebruary 11, 2011Feb 11, 201102/11/11

Part 1 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library’s implementation is now available. In this part, I explain how some of shared_ptr’s magic works, including type erasure and make_shared<T>()’s optimizations that save both space and time.

This advanced series assumes that you’re familiar with C++ and the STL’s interface,

Go Ask printf() To Behave Predictably

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 8, 2011Feb 8, 201102/8/11

This is one of those problems whose solution is very evident… or bitterly hard to guess depending on how much you were influenced by what you were told about it.
I’ll paste here the case

I must be getting blind, as I can’t see what’s wrong.

C++ Renaissance: a Channel 9 Interview

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 8, 2011Feb 8, 201102/8/11

If you don’t know Charles Torre, I’ll introduce him here: Charles is a BIG fan of C++ and he works for Channel 9 (in that order). Charles is the one to blame about the acclaimed series that Stephan put together about STL (beside Stephan himself).

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 6 (Feb 5, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFTFebruary 5, 2011Feb 5, 201102/5/11

For this week roundup, we start with a game that C++ MVP Marius Bancila code, inspired on his favorite phone game. You can download the code and study or just play it right away. We tell you how to validate, in Visual Studio 2010,

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February 2011 | C++ Team Blog

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 9 (Feb 26, 2011)

C++ Renaissance: First Symptoms of Contagion in Traditionally Non-Native Teams

Can Touch This: Developer Guidance for Touch-Enabled Applications

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 8 (Feb 19, 2011)

MFC Application Instance Control

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 7 (Feb 12, 2011)

shared_ptr – Advanced STL, Part 1

Go Ask printf() To Behave Predictably

C++ Renaissance: a Channel 9 Interview

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 6 (Feb 5, 2011)

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